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Any programs using libevdev need to run as root. Why use a library though? Check the API documentation to make sure, unless explicitly stated a call is not signal safe. Ok, enough talk, let's see some code: Device handling A libevdev context is valid for a given file descriptor and its duration. Initializing a device The first step to get a device is to open it.

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For the precise behavior of the libevdev C library refer to the offical documentation at http: Development of libevdev is discussed on input-tools lists. Initializing a device The first step to get a device is to open it. Device handling A libevdev context is valid for a given file descriptor and its duration. In the simplest case, e. The reason is simple: More specific examples can be found on the Examples page.

The error handling should be clear by now: Is there any way? It then provides the delta between the previous state and the actual state of the device as a set of events.

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The kernel interface is relatively simple, but it has a few pitfalls. Whenever you request an event, libevdev will update its internal state to match the current device state so the client doesn't have to. Note Creating uinput devices requires root access.

Creating uinput devices requires root access. This function is actually incredibly easy: The code snippets below are in C-style pseudocode. Wednesday, September 18, libevdev - handling input events.

So libevdev's device state still matches what the client would otherwise see had it processed libevvdev events. Let's move on to reading events from the device.

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The code above could, for example print something like this: Please report bugs in the freedesktop. This post ljbevdev how to read input events from the kernel through the new libevdev library.

That is not actually handled by libevdev directly, rather it expects an already opened file descriptor. Where does oibevdev sit? This is just for completeness, it is not necessary.

As you can see, all this effort just to read the same thing off the kernel device that you would've otherwise with a read 2 call. The code above could, for example print something like this:. And checking the device for functionality is done by checking the various event codes we care about.

This function is actually incredibly easy:. Once installed, the import libevdev statement will work and you can go from there. If that is the case, I will update the blog post here.

This is a lot simpler than having to ioctl the device and calculating the state manually. It buffers the device and is essentially a read 2 on steriods.

But I dont want those. If features required are not available, libevdev attempts to work around them in the most reasonable way. The source code for this project is available at libevsev